Pecháno is similar to Salarvyá, except that its king (Pechani:
Chaegosh) is both sane and more fully in control ofhis subjects. The
king is actually the senior most oligarch of the Beneshchán lineage of
Mechanéno, and he presides over the Assembly of High
Lords in which the Beneshchan and their rivals, the Rekhmél family
of Teshkóa, predominate.
Lands belonging to these two ruling houses
are divided into smaller and smaller fiefs amongst descending tiers
vassals. The system is carried even farther than it is in Salaryvá:
every landowner, no matter how minor, is someone's vassal, and if he
sells (technically "enfeoffs") a piece of his land to another, he then
becomes that person's feudal overlord.
Even the priests of the Seven
Deities of the Rising Peaks (Sec . 1 .610) are vassals because they own
the land upon which their temples stand and must thus be
responsible to somehigher suzerain. The same is true of professional
clans which own their shops and clanhouses. Only those who are not
landholders - i .e . clerks, employees, retainers, etc. - are not vassals
and hence have fewer rights under the system. It may be noted that
the prieshoods have comparatively little power in Pecháno.